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Just, that intoxication, under the influence trip. whereas white lightning can cause you -- you can drink a half a cup of white lightning and white lightning will actually the c.o.s come and ask you a common question, something like can i see your i.d. card because you have that white lightning in your system you immediately get violent. a lot of times they have that. they have to take you to the ground because youre on white lightning. you know what i mean. take six or seven to bring them down....

>> prison-made whiskey, they call it juice. its got prunes in it. >> alcohol inside of the correctional institutions are a big problem. >> when inmates get drunk. >> when you have that white lightning in your system, you immediately get violent.

With a lot of sugar in which it ferments it to make the alcohol base. then we take it from the bag and pour it into the pillowcase and strain it and keep all of the mush out of it and put the liquid in the bag to be used for apples and two boxes of sugar. and you will have three gallons of pruno, and you can sell it. and each tumbler is $10 for that, or you can sell it for $10 apiece your can just get drunk off it all you want. >> outlaw then told us about a much more potent concoction. >> the s...

Cup of white lightning and it will actually, if the cos were to come to ask you a common question like something like can i see your i.d. card, because you have the white lightning in your system, you will immediately get violent. a lot of times they do that and they have to take the dudes to the ground because they are on white lightning and takes six or seven cos to bring them down. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive guide to distilling white lightning, a hand drawn illustration confisca...

White lightning, 25 to 50. >> any suspicious artwork in the cells is brought to this sergeant in internal affairs, an expert in gang codes and symbols. >> a lot of the aztec stuff is predominantly done by the southern hispanics, mexican mafia. you will see, if you look very close, they will have the gang signs, the mexican mafia normally has a black hand, a small black hand somewhere in the drawing. you have your mainliners that are out here and they want to send a drawing back to -- they call i...

Stabbed on the yard or whatever. so if hes in the hole, he wont have contact with the inmates on the yard. if theyre saying pay me the money or you get stabbed, they did something in front of the cops they will be locked up and sent to the hole and they will stay here until a later date. they will have to eventually have the deal with it, but for a short time, he is safe in here. >> johns in fact did get sentenced to time in the hole, but never confirmed whether it was on purpose or not. >> so w...

>> this is the final result. this here is about the equivalent of grain alcohol. extremely potent. >> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys in prison will cut it with, say, something like kool-aid or something because its too strong. then you have other guys that just down it just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they dont realize that the bacteria in the stuff theyre drinking doesnt do anything but give them tuberculosi...

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A little more sophisticated. >> this is the final result. this here is about the equivalent of grain alcohol. extremely potent. >> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys in prison will cut it with, say, something like kool-aid or something because its too strong. then you have other guys that just down it just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they dont realize that the bacteria in the stuff theyre drinking doesnt do anyth...

Cvs health. because health is everything. its a fact of prison life that the walls can keep the inmates in, but they cant always keep the drugs, alcohol and other contraband out. >> are there drugs in prison? what do you think? >> inmates manufacture two kinds of alcoholic beverages in prison -- white lightning and pruno. both made from fruit and sugar fermented in a plastic bag and strained through a pillow case. >> pruno can get you drunk and get you riled up. whereas you can drink half a cu...